Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd sang La Marseillaise (well), the Star-Spangled Banner (badly). A U. S. Catholic priest pronounced a solemn benediction. He was followed by a rabbi and a Protestant minister. A French military band played the eerie Hymn to the Dead. In his Rooseveltian voice, bald William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, introduced the Deputy from Meuse, who spoke no English. Wartime Aviator Harry W. Colmery, Commander of the American Legion, orated for his 4,000,000 comrades, about half of whom got to France before the War was over. Wildly applauded, General Pershing made the formal dedication...
Mikhail Gromov is a Soviet airplane pilot who holds both the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin. He is fiercely proud of his position in Red aviation. He was the regular pilot of the U. S. S. R.'s giant Maxim Gorky, probably owes his life to the fact that he was ill and another pilot was at the controls on the May day in 1935 when a stunting pursuit ship crashed into the Maxim Gorky, sent it down to destruction with a loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov...
...Greeley, Bennett and Pulitzer never did this,'' chuckled the Mexico, Mo. Intelligencer last fortnight as it slapped a boldface banner headline across the top of its front page...
...delegation and promptly-elected President of the International Chamber of Commerce. The June issue of Think, International Business Machines' house organ, modestly omits to mention that President Watson was presented to King George VI at a levee during the Coronation period, otherwise is a banner Coronation issue, crammed with 82 pictures of Coronation events and socialites. Facing a full-page picture of Their Majesties, crowned and in full regalia, is President Watson's signed editorial "Service," declaring: "The real leader is an assistant first. . . . Following his Coronation, King George VI gave utterance to a significant statement when...
...spokesman as well as originator of the convention, the Banner's Stahlman explained that "collective bargaining is not an issue"; nor would the meeting "consider any interference with nor violation of the letter or the spirit of the Wagner Act." At week's end, however, as acceptances indicated at least 1,000 publishers or their home-office representatives would attend, the Guild in its Reporter solemnly recognized the publishers' threat: "It voices a challenge to the Guild on one of the most fundamental of the new requirements for contracts laid down at St. Louis, the Guild shop...